"i am healing by mistake | rome was also built on ruins"
queer, here, trying my best
reading: her body and other parties, carmen maria machado | the runaways (rainbow rowell)
playing: last of us | hades
How clearly does the point need to be made that “police officer” is just a fucking job, one with minimal training and minimal monitoring. It is NOT some kind of promise of honesty, truth, or heroism. It is a bunch of assistant managers with extremely powerful weapons. IF you can understand “pedophiles choose to be priests and teachers so they can get to children”, IF you understand “arsonists choose to be firefighters so they can be present at their own crimes” - then you can ALSO understand “people who are bigoted, violent, and power-hungry choose to be cops for the opportunities the job presents” and you can ALSO understand “any occupational culture that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives”
being a police officer is an entry-level job, and we are handing them weapons. nothing about their occupation automatically makes them smarter, quicker, braver, or in any way elite. there is very little in their onboarding process that would allegedly “weed out” the worst of the applicants - and once they are part of the fraternity, they’re not gonna leave.
we have been taught to respect, honor, and worship them by virtue of a job title they barely even had to try for. they sign no contract, swear no vow, and make no promise to the general public. it is a community that is extolled above others and given virtually no oversight. think about the kind of people who would be attracted to that opportunity. the adage: power corrupts. absolute power corrupts absolutely.
circling this back around to say FUCK ICE, and fuck you if you willingly support them just because they’re “a federal agent” and therefore “deserve respect”.
ICE officers are a fucking privatized militia they do not have authority over united states citizens and none of their so-called “purpose” requires live rounds and weapons. It is entirely made up of fascist racist dickbags with no fucking training. they are lower than scum. they’re police-school dropouts with no fucking spine. there is no honor in their position. they accomplish nothing but terrorizing communities they don’t even fucking live in.
Any!! occupation or government !! that chooses fraternity over justice - and the allowance of violence in the name of a unified front - is therefore siding with their worst representatives.
hate when mummy movies use Imhotep as the big bad. He was an architect. Imagine a mummy movie but the mummy is Frank Llyod Wright. And he was buried at the House On The Rock. Ok nevermind that would be a sick ass movie.
dont piss me off. next time you go on a trip im filling your house with galapagos finches. by the time you return, they’ve evolved to fill your niche. they’re a better spouse to your partner. they’re a better parent for your child. and? they’re a better friend to me than you ever were.
one time i accidentally left a flock of galapagos finches overnight in the music store i worked in. by the time i punched into work the next day, they had evolved to fill the niches of each instrument. now they’re a world-renowned band. maybe you’ve heard of… fleetwood mac?
I know for a fact many of you got tired of seeing and circulating donation campaigns from Gaza. But here’s the thing, I talk to Amal almost daily and so many times she feels the need to profusely apologise for basically telling me how bad their situation is. Amal and others like her don’t particularly enjoy being vulnerable on your feeds. But Israel has worked so hard to make their lives unbearable that this is in fact the only option a family like Amal’s has.
All Amal is fundraising for is a tent. A tent. She fully knows this tent won’t keep her safe or warm, but she simply needs a place she can recover after giving birth in the coming days instead of being stranded without shelter. That’s all she’s asking for and that’s why we’re trying to help her reach her target.
When I say donating and sharing is the least you can do, I truly and wholeheartedly mean it. Please do what you can and always remember that no amount is too small when we’re all donating and sharing collectively.
if the Black Panthers were reading theory with people who the white supremacist state attempted to keep illiterate, I think theory is a lot more accessible than some folks would have you believe
libs will get online and say “leftists are classist for expecting people to read theory. obviously poor people are too stupid to read it” and sincerely think theyre woke
